Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
Revolutionary Communist Party, USA | |
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| Chairman | Bob Avakian |
| Founded | 1968 |
| Preceded by | Revolutionary Youth Movement |
| Headquarters | Chicago, Illinois |
| Membership (2010) | 300 |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Far-left |
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| Website | |
| revcom.us | |
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The Revolutionary Communist Party, USA (also known as RCP, The Revcoms, or Revcom) is a communist party in the United States. RCP was created in 1968 as the Bay Area Revolutionary Union (BARU or RU), which emerged from former Communist Party USA (CPUSA) members and the Revolutionary Youth Movement II faction of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). RCP has its origins in the New Communist movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
Bob Avakian has led RCP since its creation. RCP is often described as a cult of personality around Avakian. Since the 2000s, RCP has upheld Avakian's "New Synthesis" or "New Communism" as its ideology.
Other notable BARU, RU, and RCP members have included Leibel Bergman, H. Bruce Franklin, Gregory Lee Johnson, C. Clark Kissinger, Carl Dix, and Sunsara Taylor.